One of the designers who made it happen

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- InfinitoWD

InfinitoWD is an awesome designer! You can clearly see that (s)he has been doing it for a while and gained great experience in that time. Thank you for always responding quickly to our change requests.

- Komola

How Marcel78 started their web page design journey

Company name

TravelGround.com

Overview

TravelGround.com is an online accommodation booking website that lists over 1,500 accommodation establishments across South Africa. The site is self service - a user can search for any region of South Africa, select the perfect accommodation to suit them, and send an enquiry directly to the establishment owner/manager.

We have crafted our website with love and care, so that users have the best possible experience. We pride ourselves in the ease with which users can navigate our website, quickly drilling down to the region of accommodation that they are interested in. The ease, swiftness and security of our online accommodation booking/enquiry system is also one of our key competencies.

In a way, we service and bring together two very different groups of people - accommodation seekers, and accommodation owners. While we consider our primary business to be finding good accommodation for potential guests, we can only service that need if we are constantly expanding our accommodation portfolio.

Tell us a bit about who you are and the people you reach

We sell accommodation both for leisure and business, from student-budget backpacker's lodges to high-class, 5-star hotels or safaris. This means that, even though we view ourselves as young and dynamic, we like to maintain a business-like brand. We need people to know that we take their requirements seriously, and that we have already had thousand of happy clients. They must know that we can be anything that they need us to be.

We are a young company and, as such, most of our client are encountering us for the first time. For many of them, their yearly holiday is their biggest leisure expense of the year and they need to trust us wholeheartedly or we won't get their business. Not only do they need to trust us with their choice of accommodation, but also with their money (via online credit card payment or bank transfer). In fact, for many of them this may be the first time that they are paying for something online and they need to know that they can trust us.

Trust is very important, so it is vital that the site boasts a professional, and relatively established look.

Requirements

Please have a quick look around our site. We are only redesigning the homepage right now, so, while we want a new feel for the homepage, we don't want it to make the rest of the site feel alien - e.g. our whole site is fixed width. However, you are welcome to change/replace the current header and/or footer if necessary - we are willing to update those across the site (its quick and easy).

We also don't necessarily feel that the homepage needs to even have the same header as the rest of the site - you are welcome to play around with that.

Our current colours are Green and Blue. Our logo is in these colour and is attached.

See "Page details" for specifics.

Number of pages

1

Page descriptions

We need a new homepage. It needs to indicate to accommodation seekers that they are in the right place to find any accommodation in South Africa.

It needs to have a prominent search field ("where are you going?" or something like that -- just 1 field, not 2 like on the current homepage), but it also needs quick links to the most popular regions in South Africa.

You can also add other elements like those on the current homepage, such as maps ( http://www.travelground.com/accommo…africa/map ), recent addition to our portfolio of accommodations, reasons to use us etc. Feel free to modify any and/or all elements.

The other thing is that there needs to be a button/link where we can link accommodation owners to our sign-up page. This is definitely not the main point of the homepage, but it needs to be present none-the-less.